- Yemen: Saudi-backed forces gather on border as separatists face pressure to pull back
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“As many as 20,000 Saudi-backed forces are gathering on the border of Yemen as the separatist Southern Transitional Council comes under pressure to withdraw from the huge territorial gains it has made in the last month in the vast, oil-rich governorate on Hadramaut in eastern Yemen. The STC is using its advance to raise its demand for Yemen to revert to two states, north and south, as it had been until 1990. The STC, which is backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been warned there is a possibility of direct airstrikes by Saudi forces, a development that would threaten key STC positions. Well-paid troops, mainly drawn from a Saudi-funded militia called the National Shield, have been gathering in the al-Wadeeah and al-Abr areas close to the Saudi border. The STC has been reassured it retains the support of the UAE, raising the prospect of future clashes between troops loyal either to Saudi Arabia or the UAE.” (12/18/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/saudi-backed-forces-yemen-border-separatists-stc
- Maxwell Seeks to Reverse Conviction as Epstein Deadline Looms
Source: mint [India]
“Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to throw out her sex-trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence on the eve of a deadline for the Justice Department to turn over a trove of documents relating to her ex-boyfriend, the disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell filed a long-shot petition for a judge to upend the guilty verdict based on what she claims is ‘substantial new evidence’ that has emerged since her 2021 trial. The 63-year-old filed the request pro se, or without a lawyer, from the Bryan, Texas, federal prison where she is serving her sentence. The new evidence ‘shows that exculpatory information was withheld, false testimony presented, and material facts misrepresented to the jury and the court,’ she wrote in the 51-page filing, the upshot of which is ‘a complete miscarriage of justice, rendering petitioner’s conviction invalid, unsafe and infirm.'” (12/18/25)
- Bongino to abandon FBI sinecure in January
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino will step down from his post next month, he said on Wednesday, ending a short and at-times tumultuous tenure as the bureau’s second highest-ranking official. Bongino announced the move on social media hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he thought Bongino wanted to ‘go back to his show.’ He hosted a prominent right-wing podcast prior to joining the FBI. ‘Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,’ Trump told reporters.” (12/17/25)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dan-bongino-fbi-resignation-9.7020221
- US regime sues Virgin Islands regime for violating gun rights
Source: ABC News
“A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The U.S. government sued the U.S. territory, its police department and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks on Tuesday, accusing them of obstructing and systematically denying American citizens the right to possess and carry guns. The U.S. Virgin Islands requires that applicants demonstrate ‘good reason to fear death or great injury to his person or property,’ and to have ‘two credible persons’ to vouch for their need of a firearm. Local law also requires that someone have ‘good moral character’ to obtain a gun permit, which is valid for up to three years and applies to a single weapon.” (12/17/25)
- Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE gang lairs
Source: Politico
“A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to limit members of Congress from visiting detention facilities operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb ruled Wednesday that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities and entirely barring congressional visits to field offices being used to detain immigrants. Those policies, adopted in June, appear to violate explicit language in federal funding laws — adopted annually since 2020 — that prohibit ICE from restricting lawmakers’ access to its facilities, Cobb concluded.” (12/17/25)
- Court blocks Michigan ban on “conversion therapy” on free speech grounds
Source: Seattle Times
“A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors. In a 2-1 opinion, the court said the law illegally restricts speech that reflects the moral beliefs of therapists. It set aside a lower court’s ruling and granted a preliminary injunction sought by Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties. ‘The Michigan law discriminates based on viewpoint — meaning the law permits speech on a particular topic only if the speech expresses a viewpoint that the government itself approves,’ Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote, joined by Judge Joan Larsen. They noted that the law permits counseling that helps someone undergoing a gender transition.” (12/17/25)
- NV: Las Vegas police investigate fatal shooting in apparent home intrusion
Source: News 3 Las Vegas
“Officers were called to the 5200 block of Greene Lane at about 10:52 a.m. after a homeowner reported shooting an intruder, police said. Upon arrival, officers from the South Central Area Command were directed to an apartment, where they found a man with an apparent gunshot wound. Police rendered aid until paramedics arrived. The injured man was transported to Sunrise Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to LVMPD, the homeowner told investigators that a man entered his apartment uninvited and unannounced, which led to a physical altercation.” (12/17/25)
https://news3lv.com/news/local/las-vegas-police-investigating-shooting-near-maryland-hacienda
- Lula threatens to walk away if further delays to EU-Mercosur trade deal
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned he may abandon a long-awaited trade deal between members of the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union after key countries sought a delay. The Brazilian leader issued the threat on Wednesday after Italy joined fellow heavyweight France in saying it was not ready to commit to the pact to create the world’s biggest free-trade area. The EU had expected its 27 member states to approve the deal in time for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to fly to Brazil to sign an agreement with the host, along with Mercosur partners Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, on Saturday. ‘I’ve already warned them: If we don’t do it now, Brazil won’t make any more agreements while I’m president,’ Lula told a cabinet meeting.” (12/17/25)
- Johnson ekes out healthcare bill victory after House GOP Obamacare rebellion
Source: Fox News
“House Republicans passed a bill they say will lower healthcare costs for a broad swath of Americans by roughly 11%. It’s a victory for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has been managing deep divisions within the House GOP on the topic of healthcare as insurance premiums are set to spike across the country in a matter of weeks. One glaring issue that remains unresolved is Obamacare subsidies, which were enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic but are set to expire at the end of this year. The legislation passed 216 to 211. Just one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., voted against it along with all House Democrats. The bill’s passage comes hours after a group of moderate Republicans joined a Democrat-led discharge petition to force a vote on extending the subsidies for another three years.” (12/17/25)
- The UK Becomes a Case Study in How Not to Fix a Floundering Economy
Source: The Daily Economy
by John Phelan“In its manifesto for the 2024 general election, Britain’s Labour party listed ‘Five Missions to Rebuild Britain,’ the first being: ‘Kickstart economic growth.’ The party’s second budget since winning that election, delivered on November 26 by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, suggests it has already abandoned that mission—and offers a cautionary tale to other governments on what not to do.” (12/18/25)
- AI regulation stans should fix corporatism first
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz“Basically, I’m opposed to AI regulations because I agree with the public that we can’t trust our government. Voters expect our elected representatives from both parties to pass regulations that benefit current power players while hurting everyone else. So why let them loose on AI? If people want us to trust our government to regulate AI, they need to fix this problem or explain to us why we’re wrong to believe it’s a problem.” (12/18/25)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/ai-regulation-stans-should-fix-corporatism
- From the Fireline to the Frontline of Education Freedom
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Denise Lever“My first career was not in education; for me, it began on the fireline. As a young woman fighting wildland fires, I quickly learned that courage, clarity under pressure, and teamwork could mean the difference between containment and catastrophe. I was trained to work with confidence while structures were consumed and wildlands burned around me. That experience shaped my conviction that the people closest to the problem are often the best equipped to act. It also showed me how systems sometimes fail to support individuals who don’t quite fit the mold. This realization became the catalyst for the work I do today.” (12/18/25)
https://fee.org/articles/from-the-fireline-to-the-frontline-of-education-freedom/
- Not all Central Banks are created equal
Source: Cobden Centre
by Damien Phillips“For those of us who think central banks are a destabilising blight on the economy, responsible for encouraging malinvestment and engines of inflation, it’s tempting to lump them all into the same boat. But just as in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ This is particularly apparent when it comes to keeping inflation down. Putting aside the inherent problems with inflation targeting, price stability is typically the primary objective for most modern central banks. But as the UK endures a further round of above-target inflation at 3.8% for yet another gruelling month, when you pit the Bank of England against its contemporaries around the world it has a terrible track record that goes beyond the basic problem of knowledge that faces all central banks.” (12/18/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/12/not-all-central-banks-are-created-equal/
- The Grifters Behind the Nazis
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu“[George L.] Mosse had a particular genius for identifying second and third-rate thinkers that nevertheless had deep cultural impact, particularly in the half-century before Hitler’s rise. Figures like Paul de Lagarde and Julius Langbehn easily fade from the historian’s view because they were gauche and intellectually unserious; revisited today, their works are easily dismissed as trash. It’s far more interesting to debate real philosophical luminaries like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, whose genuinely groundbreaking work did nevertheless have real connections to fascism. Those thinkers are extremely abstruse, however. Normal people don’t read or understand them. Mosse grasped the importance of looking at the ‘sub-intellectual realm,’ where cranks and grifters peddle conspiracy theories and paranoid just-so stories. These, he suggests, were the men who truly paved the way for Hitler’s rise.” (12/18/25)
- The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome“Readers might assume that, if forced to choose which U.S. policy shift was the year’s most important, I’d quickly blurt out ‘tariffs’ (before collapsing into a quivering heap), and—given the radical changes Trump has unilaterally and chaotically implemented in 2025—there are certainly good reasons for that choice. Yet there’s another, less-discussed policy change that could very well be more consequential over the long term—and one that, unlike tariffs, represents a truly radical break from how the United States has done business for a century: the Trump administration’s repeated efforts to give Uncle Sam a direct and permanent financial stake in numerous private, commercial companies.” (12/17/25)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/year-america-went-kinda-socialist
- China Between Ogre and Olympus
Source: Liberal Currents
by Guillaume AW Attia“China may well become the singular Olympus that all mere mortals look up to, but so long as this Olympus is home to Ogres it will struggle to compel the allegiance of the wider world.” (12/18/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/china-between-ogre-and-olympus/
- The Distorting Impact of Hyphenated Americans on Korea Policy
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“As a nation of immigrants, the United States long has dealt with the phenomenon of ‘hyphenated Americans,’ people who retained some affection and even loyalty to their ancestral homeland. This phenomenon wasn’t much of a problem in the 19th century, since Washington generally avoided overseas misadventures. The Mexican–American War and Spanish–American War reflected imperialist expansion rather than ancestral politics. However, that changed with World War I, when one-third of Americans had at least one foreign-born parent, mostly from Europe. As the conflict raged, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that real Americans could only support the U.S. … That Sen. [Andy] Kim presumably feels affection for his parents’ birthplace is unexceptional. … However, so-called hyphenated Americans should abandon the interests of the old world even as they celebrate continuing family and cultural ties. Legislators, especially, should leave their ethnic backgrounds outside the Capitol when they vote.” (12/18/25)
- Marines know we don’t kill unarmed survivors for a reason
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by James R Webb“As the Trump Administration continues to kill so-called Venezuelan ‘narco terrorists’ through ‘non-international armed conflict’ (whatever that means), it is clear it is doing so without Congressional authorization and in defiance of international law. Perhaps worse, through these actions, the administration is demonstrating wanton disregard for centuries of Western battlefield precedent, customs, and traditions that righteously seek to preserve as many lives during war as possible. Continuing down this path will not only be a stain on our national honor that will spread like spilled ink, but will also ensure reciprocal treatment of our troops.” (12/18/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/second-strike-hegseth-narco/
- Governing the News
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“‘The Fairness Doctrine was controversial and led to lawsuits throughout the 1960s and ’70s that argued it infringed upon the freedom of the press,’ explained FCC commissioner Ajit Pai for the Wall Street Journal, in an op-ed I quoted yesterday. ‘The FCC finally stopped enforcing the policy in 1987, acknowledging that it did not serve the public interest.’ … Thankfully, this is old news. The former FCC commissioner’s piece was actually published nearly twelve years ago. Mr. Pai has since moved on to the private sector, in April becoming President and CEO of CTIA, the wireless industry trade association. We can breathe a sigh of relief. The FCC is not planning on regulating the news for biased content. Well, supposedly, anyway.” (12/18/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/12/17/governing-the-news/
- WMDs for a MIC in Need
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Alan Mosley“In the closing days of 2025, the White House turned an opioid crisis into a national security drama. Standing in the Oval Office during a Mexican Border Defense Medal ceremony on December 15, President Donald Trump declared that he would sign an executive order to classify fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction,’ calling the announcement ‘historic.’ Treating a synthetic painkiller like a nuclear bomb says more about Washington’s mindset than about the drug. Though drug overdose deaths declined in 2024, 80,391 people still died and 54,743 of those deaths were from opioids. Those numbers mark a public‑health emergency. Rather than tackle fentanyl abuse as a medical or social problem, the administration reframed it as an existential threat requiring military tools. Labeling a narcotic a WMD creates a pretext for war and sidesteps due process.” (12/18/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/wmds-for-a-mic-in-need/
- The Fast Fashion Dilemma
Source: EconLog
by Joy Buchanan“Shoppers are filling their carts, both literally and digitally, with last-minute gifts. One tempting purchase, whether for gifting or for showing up in style at a holiday sweater party, is ultra-cheap clothing from Shein. Like many around the world, the French hunt for deals in December. During a recent interview with journalist Thomas Mahler, I learned that fast fashion has become a political flashpoint in France, the country known for haute couture. French lawmakers are considering measures aimed at threatening the economic viability of Shein, the Chinese company that dominates ultra-cheap clothing globally. Millions of French consumers shop through Shein regularly. Mahler asked me: Can politicians persuade consumers to buy domestically-made clothes instead, in a country with a proud tradition in domestic fashion? My reply was that this dilemma extends beyond France.” (12/18/25)
- Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano“Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast. You read that correctly: The U.S. Senate is being asked to condemn Carlson because of what someone else said. Here is the back story.” (12/18/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/12/17/tucker-carlson-and-the-freedom-of-speech
- Don’t Panic, Trump Is Flagging
Source: Persuasion
by Francis Fukuyama“During the first Trump term, I warned friends not to assume that the world would at some point snap back to what it was prior to 2016, or that Trumpist populism was just a passing phase. There were too many shifts in right-wing coalitions around the world for this to happen. But it is important to understand that Trumpism is also not a permanent condition. I believe that already in the first year of his second term, we have experienced peak Trump, and that his power will decline steadily as time goes on.” (12/17/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-panic-trump-is-flagging
- Opportunity by design: How states turn immigration into economic advantage
Source: Niskanen Center
by Denise Bell“The American labor market is undergoing a profound structural transformation, driven by an aging population, rapid technological change, and persistent mismatches between worker skills and employer needs. In response, states have been modernizing their workforce systems to expand labor force participation, align education and training with evolving industry demands, and future-proof their economies. As part of these efforts, policymakers, the private sector, and civil society are increasingly recognizing immigrants as a vital yet underutilized segment of the labor force and harnessing their contributions as workers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.” (12/17/25)
- Trump’s Venezuela oil obsession doesn’t make sense
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Karthik Sankaran“The president accused Caracas of ‘stealing’ the commodity and vows to take it back. First, we don’t need it, second, invading for it would be a blunder.” (12/17/25)
- Abundance as a Foreign Policy
Source: Foreign Policy
by Max Yoeli“Across advanced economies, a new axis of politics is emerging: scarcity versus abundance. Rising prices, stalled infrastructure, and eroding industrial competitiveness reflect constraints on building and innovation. Trade disruptions and inadequate state capacity compound the challenge. In response, a cross-partisan abundance movement offers a path to expand the supply of vital goods and services—infrastructure, energy, health care, and housing—while responding to voters’ growing affordability concerns. Abundance is both a goal and a lens for overcoming the regulatory and capacity barriers that constrain supply. Yet the debate has focused mainly on domestic issues, such as zoning and permitting, even though its success depends on international flows of goods, capital, knowledge, and energy.” (12/17/25)
- Trump’s Attempt to Deport Chinese Dissident Guan Heng is Part of an Awful Pattern
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin“The Trump Administration’s effort to deport Chinese dissident Guan Heng has rightly drawn widespread outrage and condemnation. Guan is a hero for his exposure of the Chinese government’s oppression and persecution of the Uyghur minority, and he faces near-certain imprisonment or death if he is deported to China, or to Uganda (a Chinese-aligned state to which the Trump administration may be trying to send him). Legally, he has an rock-solid case for asylum. Sadly, the effort to deport Guan is part of a broader pattern of Trump administration efforts to deport dissidents and victims of persecution back to the regimes that oppress them.” (12/17/25)
- Are policymakers ready for the potential impact of AI on the labor market?
Source: Orange County Register
by Rafael Perez“At some point in the future, AI and robotics will be advanced enough to perform nearly all of the jobs currently performed by humans. Such a future will require that we radically change the relationship that we have with the economy and the means of production. Corporations will be forced to share their revenues as a universal basic income if they want to exist at all. However, before we achieve complete automation, there will be a period of gradually increasing AI adoption that will present unique challenges that cannot be so straightforwardly remediated (relatively speaking) as a world with full automation. So, what does a world look like where artificial intelligence has led directly to an unemployment rate comparable to or exceeding that of the Great Depression (25%)?” (12/17/25)
- This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Source: The Atlantic
by Tom Nichols“The president of the United States just barged into America’s living rooms like an angry, confused grandfather to tell us all that we are ungrateful whelps. When a president asks for network time, it’s usually to announce something important. But tonight, Donald Trump did not give anything like a normal speech or address. He was clearly working from a prepared text, but it sounded like one he’d written—or dictated angrily—himself, because it was full of bizarre howlers that even Trump’s second-rate speech-writing shop would probably have avoided …. We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor. Americans saw a president drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job.” (12/17/25)
- Thanks to Antitrust Officials, iRobot Will Be Acquired by a Chinese Robotics Firm Instead of Amazon
Source: Reason
by Jack Nicastro“Americans purchasing their robot vacuum cleaners from China is not a national security threat, nor does it mean that the market will be flooded with shoddy imports—Picea will compete with Roborock, Ecovacs, Dreame, Xiaomi, and other manufacturers to deliver increasingly inexpensive and high-quality products to consumers around the world, just as Amazon would have. However, thanks to the American government, a once American firm is now Chinese.” (12/17/25)
- The Next Economic Downturn Will Be Here Soon Enough
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Vincent Cook“The fundamental problem with fractional reserve bank credit is that it funds greater investment spending without the corresponding thrift. Bank credit expansions drive down interest rates artificially, causing too many labor and natural resources inputs to be diverted towards the more interest-sensitive parts of the economy with too few invested in the less interest-sensitive sectors—these inputs are malinvested in unsustainable boom sectors. Such booms can’t be sustained because demand for inputs in the short-term, lower-risk sectors isn’t slackened sufficiently by thrift to match the higher bank credit-fueled demand for inputs from the boom sectors. Input prices increase relative to output prices, eventually squeezing business operating margins to the point where losses begin to appear, particularly in the boom sectors.” (12/17/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/next-economic-downturn-will-be-here-soon-enough
- A Missing Textbook Diagram
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan“While I was touring San Francisco, the following diagram popped into my head. Obvious once you think about it, and ChatGPT says there are plenty of precursors, especially in business classes. But I don’t recall seeing anything like this in any intro, intermediate micro, or public policy textbook. And I think it would make a good addition.” (12/17/25)
- Trump Supporters: Is He Really “Fit for Office?”
Source: RealClearPolitics
by Melinda Henneberger“Remember when MAGA Republicans said that anyone so hateful as to blame Charlie Kirk for his own murder should be out of a job? Firefighters, teachers, and active-duty military personnel were fired as a result. If the principle behind that outrage still holds, does it also apply to Donald Trump, who immediately responded to the news that Rob and Michelle Reiner had been brutally murdered by blaming them? Many on the right did criticize him for posting that the Reiners were dead because of Trump Derangement Syndrome. But this is not a one-time departure from otherwise rational behavior.” (12/17/25)
- “Let them sue”: Iowa lawmakers scoffed at First Amendment in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting, records show
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Graham Piro“The months since Charlie Kirk’s murder on Utah Valley University’s campus in September have seen a deluge of firings and suspensions of teachers, faculty, and staff across the country for celebrating the assassination, or just for being insufficiently mournful. As the dust settles and court cases proceed, more details are emerging about the political pressures universities faced to punish protected political expression. In Iowa, lawmakers were so incensed by one Iowa State University staff member’s speech about the shooting that they outright dismissed the possibility of a lawsuit. … Iowa taxpayers: that’s your free speech rights — and your money — they’re putting at risk.” (12/17/25)
- Advisory Opinions, 12/18/25
Source: The Dispatch
“Political Distortions.” (12/18/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/political-distortions/
- The Fifth Column, episode 536
Source: The Fifth Column
“Black Irish, Ice Queens, and Body Snatchers (w/ Tina Nguyen).” (12/18/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/black-irish-ice-queens-and-body-snatchers
- Political Theater, 12/18/25
Source: Roll Call
“A most consequential year for Congress.” (12/18/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL1660042117.mp3
- Reason Interview: Jeff Flake
Source: Reason
“Jeff Flake on Free Trade, Immigration, and Trump’s GOP.” (12/18/25)
- Capital Record, episode 275
Source: National Review
“The Common Grace in Scott Galloway’s Wisdom for Young Men.” (12/18/25)
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2718
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Robert Barnes on the Mistakes of the Israel Lobby, and Whether MAGA Can Be Put Back Together.” (12/18/25)
- Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, 12/18/25
Source: Politico
“Trump sticks to the script.” (12/18/25)
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 12/18/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“House Kills Bill on Blocking War With Venezuela, Israel Shelling Injures 11 in Gaza City, and More.” (12/18/25)
- Reasonably Optimistic
Source: Washington Post
“The weirdest Democrat in America.”(12/17/25)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/the-weirdest-democrat-in-america/
- The David Frum Show, 12/17/25
Source: The Atlantic
“How Crypto Is Turning America Into a Kleptocracy.” (12/17/25)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2025/12/the-david-frum-show-will-thomas-crypto/685296/
- The Chris Hedges Report, 12/17/25
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba).” (12/17/25)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/taking-power-amidst-the-turbulence
- NPR Politics Podcast, 12/17/25
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Americans give Trump low marks on the economy in new poll.” (12/17/25)
- Quillette Podcast, episode 316
Source: Quillette
“The Genius of Jane Austen.” (12/17/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/12/17/podcast-316-the-genius-of-jane-austen/
- Bulwark Takes, 12/17/25
Source: The Bulwark
“LIVE REACTION: Trump White House Address (w/ Tim Miller, Andrew Egger & Will Saletan).” (12/17/25)
- Making Room for the Next Generation of Kentuckians
Source: Bluegrass Institute
“Kentucky is in the early stages of a housing affordability crisis—and we can either learn from California’s catastrophic failures or chart a better course.” (12/17/25)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/video-making-room-for-the-next-generation-of-kentuckians/